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This isn't a fair comparison. the "HTTP server" presented isn't doing any checks / validation that a typical web server does.

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https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/net/http/server...

The benchmark is almost equivalent to testing raw eventloop performance against a complete http server.

To make this test fair, you need to write the same code in asyncio_http_server.py in other languages.

Keep in mind that the HTTP server in the benchmarks actually uses the httptools parser, which is a full-blown HTTP parser. A lot of heavy-lifting is done by the parser.

I plan to add a complete HTTP protocol implementation to httptools, but honestly, I don't expect it to be more than 20% slower.

> This isn't a fair comparison. the "HTTP server" presented isn't doing any checks / validation that a typical web server does.

How so? It uses a binding to http-parser, just like nodejs.

Parsing is just a small part of an http server. You can check the links I posted to see how much work is involved in validating http headers (after parsing), and creating http responses.

There is a TCP and a HTTP benchmark.

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